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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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